@coolboymew nah man, you can just run any OS that can do whatever the fuck network share file protocol that suits you. I mean my first was literal JBOD with debian and NFS exports because it's the fastests and lowest latency (compared to CIFS/SMB/Samba), then it was FreeNAS (FreeBSD but still NFS) and then TrueNAS COCK (same shit but linux)